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Attorney General’s Opinions<br />
BY JEFF LANDRY, ATTORNEY GENERAL<br />
Prohibited Donations<br />
Opinion: 18-0008 La. Const. art. VII, §14<br />
(A) prohibits the payment of wages<br />
earned more than three years in the past<br />
due to the liberative prescriptive period<br />
for unpaid wages found in La. Civ. C. art. 3494. Opinion Released:<br />
8/20/<strong>2018</strong><br />
Opinion: 18-0015 La. Const. art. VII, §14 would not prohibit the<br />
City from retroactively paying earned compensation to two<br />
employees for new and additional duties actually performed if<br />
the City obligated itself to make such payments and if the City<br />
deems that it received a benefit commensurate with the amount<br />
of the additional compensation to be paid. Opinion Released:<br />
8/20/<strong>2018</strong><br />
Opinion: 18-0105 If the installation of a culvert is for the sole<br />
benefit of private landowner, then installation of the culvert<br />
would be the responsibility of the private landowner. However, if<br />
installation of the culvert is for the benefit of the public at large,<br />
then the police jury could install the culvert. Opinion Released:<br />
8/20/<strong>2018</strong><br />
Blight Abatement<br />
Opinion: 18-0079 The privilege Golden Meadow may assert<br />
under its authority to condemn dangerous structures ranks first<br />
among privileges and ahead of all mortgages in any particular<br />
property to which that privilege may apply. Opinion Released:<br />
8/21/<strong>2018</strong><br />
Ad Valorem Taxes<br />
Opinion: 17-0107 A surviving spouse occupying property as<br />
his homestead and holding a full ownership interest over fifty<br />
percent of the property and a usufruct over the other fifty percent<br />
may qualify for the homestead exemption and the special<br />
assessment level if the requirements of La. Const. art. VII, § 20(A)<br />
(2) and La. Const. art. VII, § 18(G)(2) are met. Opinion Released:<br />
9/6/<strong>2018</strong><br />
Public Records<br />
Opinion: 18-0115 All records described in La. R.S. 44:1(A)(2), are<br />
public records of the State of Louisiana. Records that do not conform<br />
to the definition provided by the Louisiana Legislature are<br />
not subject to the provisions of Title 44 of the Louisiana Revised<br />
Statutes. Opinion Released: 9/5/<strong>2018</strong><br />
Page 8<br />
<strong>LMR</strong> | <strong>October</strong> <strong>2018</strong>
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